The Franco-British Council in partnership with Inria and the Franco-British Data Society hosted a one-day seminar on “Artificial Intelligence and Information Warfare” in July 2024 at University College London. Hervé Mariton, Chair of the Conseil franco-britannique, noted the seminar’s focus on practical applications and implications for democracy, media, and public …
CEDAR team participated in the 37th conference of Data Management “BDA” held online and in Ecole Normal Superieure of Paris between 25 and 28 October 2021.
The team participated in two short papers:
PigReuse: A Reuse-based Optimizer for Pig Latin has been presented by Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez at CIKM 2016 in Indianapolis. 
CEDAR was very well represented at this year’s edition of VLDB in India. TATOOINE, the mixed instance querying, lightweight integration architecture for data journalism was shown in the demo session by Raphaël, Tien, Ioana and Oscar, while Damian presented his paper on “Teaching an RDBMS about ontological constraints”. Continue reading
Damian presented the demo “Flexible Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue” at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering held in Helsinki from May 16 to 20. 
At the last week Tech & Check Conference of the Duke University in North Carolina, Michaël Thomazo presented the FactMinder, our system for archiving, annotating, and querying semantic-rich Web content. The event aimed at bringing together journalists (mostly fact-checkers, from Factcheck, Politifact, Full Fact, Chequeado,…) and computer scientists in order to have a clearer …
In March, we attended the EDBT 2016 conference held in Bordeaux, where Raphael presented his paper “Social, structured and semantic search”. Bordeaux is rightfully renowned for gastronomy, which we dutifully checked for ourselves. As for the wine, Damian has his favorite addresses already (and shares them, too!). 
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OAK has presented some of their research at the Big Data Business Convention in HEC on Nov 24-25, 2015. Stamatis has shown CliqueSquare, and we have talked of many other projects, including graph and RDF analytics and fact-checking! 
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We have attended BDA 2015 in Porquerolles, to present our papers, demos, and keynote ! 
The weather was way below the advertised specification, but still, we got to see …
OAK has been well-represented at the VLDB 2015 conference in Hawaii! Damian with his demo: 
Melanie and Katerina with theirs: 
and Sejla with hers: 
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